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Love is easier in a warm climate

I have always thought of weather like that of the last week as Dating Weather.  It’s not that one can only date when it’s hot, or that one...

01.07.2026 10

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My post-divorce Tinder career

John Wilkes, the eighteenth-century radical, rake and uglybug, claimed that it only took him half an hour with any woman to talk away his face....

05.06.2026 20

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A Local Election Candidate’s Tale

As the results are being announced for this year’s local elections, I am reminded of where I was almost exactly a year ago: standing in Carn Brea...

08.05.2026 20

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Stuffed / What Freud would say about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s teddy bears

It is widely known that when a Duke of York is down, he is down, and the recent hit-piece in Heat – “‘Pathetic’ Andrew’s tantrums over...

19.02.2026 50

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Terminates here / All aboard the last bus out of Mousehole

It was lucky that the bus was behind schedule – mainly because the driver had stepped out to take his own photograph for social media (#endofanera)...

19.02.2026 40

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All aboard the last bus out of Mousehole

It was lucky that the bus was behind schedule – mainly because the driver had stepped out to take his own photograph for social media (#endofanera)...

19.02.2026 40

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Andrew Watts

Schoolboy error / The joyless reading app being forced on my son

16.01.2026 30

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Andrew Watts

Woke coke / Would you drink Gaza Cola?

21.07.2025 30

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Woke coke / Would you drink Gaza Cola?

18.07.2025 30

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Andrew Watts

Woke coke: would you drink Gaza Cola?

17.07.2025 30

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Andrew Watts

Notes on... / Heaven is Angel Delight

19.06.2025 30

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Andrew Watts

Heaven is Angel Delight

19.06.2025 40

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Andrew Watts

Does Cornwall have a pasty problem?

11.04.2025 30

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Andrew Watts